Firefighter here. Brush and gently vacuum your smoke detector. Insects are attracted to the LED and can set off the alarm. They may be very small. Dust can also set it off.

It’s even better than that. It’s a computer’s version of a story describing how a computer wrote a story which was then front-paged by a computer.

Came here to say this.

I read somewhere that this can mean they think you might steal stuff.

This. Has changed my life.

Clickbait title. The graph looks pretty balanced actually.

There doesn’t seem to be any monolithic music culture at all anymore. Everyone has super customized spotify playlists.

I’ve noticed this too. In some ways it makes it harder to find new music.

FooBarBaz

Found the dev.

Finger limes. Tastes like lime sorbet but with the texture of roe.

I came here thinking it would be a Reddit alternative. I stayed because I realized it wasn’t Reddit 2.0, it was something better.

Why don’t you offer to start by ‘baby sitting’ the child while the mother is at work. That might eventually extend to sleep overs.

I agree with the comment about medical care and therapy. Like it or not, she’s still his mother and would probably see any offer in this direction as meddling or judgemental and close the door completely.

Many of them can only be controlled from a smartphone app that requires both the phone and the robot to access the cloud. ☹️

You forgot volcanos

That is deeply, deeply disturbing.

I’ve heard good things about both Davinci and Openshot.

Microsoft just don’t know how not to be assholes it seems.

I spent many years trying to be as FOSS as I could. I tried many different Linux distros, hunted for open source operating systems for my phone (at the time, none did even the basic things I needed it to do) until one day I decided I was sick to death of having to spend hours researching and trying multiple arcane cli commands to get even simple things to work (like WiFi). I realised that I was wasting an enormous amount of time being all-things-open-source.

My next purchase as a macbook as it was based on a *nix and I’ve come to realise that while Apple is a walled garden and in some ways is ‘evil’, it’s less evil than Google is now, or Microsoft was back in the day.

I also like the way that the various Apple devices work really well together. But I hate the fact that it’s harder to hack things to be the way that I want. Don’t get me wrong, I still love open source software, but I have too few years left to waste them on modifying config.org files, or whatever they do now, so I’m much more selective with what I use. I tend to use FOSS applications on MacOS where the software works well enough.

Not trying to bash FOSS, just my 2 cents.

Matrix.org is cool too. I use Element.